From: "Debashish Banerji" <ewcc@...>
Date: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:03 pm
Subject: Fw: AUM 2005, Port Townsend.WA
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From: Richard
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Subject: AUM 2005, Port Townsend.WA
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AUM 2005
(All U.S.A Meeting)
Theme: The Promise of the Future
Dates: June 9 - June 13, 2005
Place: Port Townsend WA (Ft. Worden State Park)
Located about 1 1/2 hours northeast of Seattle, the park is a beautiful, natural setting for the conference on the ocean.
For more details on the park facilities and Port Townsend WA: http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Fort%20Worden
To explore the theme a talented group of people involved in the yoga have been assembled. Our presenters and panelists include medical doctors, biological researchers, psychologists, environmentalists, educationists, Aurovilians, cultural historians, art historians, musicians and performing artists.
Presenters:
Alok Pandey, Aster Patel, Matthijs Cornelissen, Debashish Banerji, Lynda Lester, Ameeta Mehra
Panelists:
Savitra, Rod Hemsell, Dave Hutchinson, Lakshman Sehgal, Michael Miovic, Guy Burneko
and featured guests:
Karunamayee Phenomenal classical north Indian vocalist
Joe Subbiondo President: California Institute of Integral Studies
Allan Combs Author: �The Radiance of Being�, member of the Club of Budapest
THEME: This year�s AUM theme is �the Promise of the Future�. The theme seeks to open a dialog between the promise of the future as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the
cultural evolution of consciousness with an emphasis on the
co-evolution of science and spirituality, and the future of the
integral yoga community. (see details below)
INTERACTIVE FORMAT:
The emphasis of the conference format will be on panel discussions and
conversation caf� style small group break-out sessions, interactive
workshops, collective meditations, centers meetings, and outdoor
activities. The intention is to make the presenters available to all
who attend in an intimate setting. There will be daily group
meditations, and invocations.
COST: $98.00
/ day for single rooms, $90.00 / day double rooms, (meals included)
(Note: double rooms are limited) Conference only: $50.00 / day
(includes two meals). These prices apply to tickets purchased before
April 1st. Late registration rates are $10.00 / day extra. Entire four day stay will be discounted to 375.00 for single rooms. (Credit card registration add 3% processing fee)
REGISTRATION: On-line registration beginning in March 2005. Brochures will be mailed out in early March.
SCHOLARSHIPS: A
limited amount of partial scholarships will be offered for helping with
the conference, for families with children, and for first time
participants. These will be available after registration starts in
February on a first come, first serve basis.
PROCEDURES:
If you are interested in offering a workshop along the lines of the
theme at the AUM, they will be granted on a first come, first serve
basis. Please inquire a.s.a.p. with the AUM organizers. We especially
encourage creative and interactive type of workshops.
PRE & POST AUM SPEAKERS TOURS:
Some of the AUM presenters will be available for a lecture/
presentation tour to centers other parts of the country after or before
the conference. If you are interested in hosting and arranging a
program, please contact the Speakers Bureau at: <sasp@lodinet.com>
DISCUSSION: If you find this subject of the Promise of the Future intriguing an email list for the discussion is in the process of being developed. It will be announced as soon as its ready
UPDATES: Please check the AUM site for more details as we get closer to the conference date at www.collaboration.org/aum/2005/index.html
AUM 2005
The Promise of the Future
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY
A Community Dialog on Emerging Culture
Topics in Play:
* THE PSYCHIC BEING IN EVOLUTION
(the soul & soul of the world in the third millennium)
* THE FUTURE BODY
(the yoga of the cells in the bio-tech century)
* THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION
(the structures of the brain & the strange attractors of consciousness)
* THE CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF SPEED
(singularity: the mutation of species in the "hour of the unexpected".)
* INTEGRAL EDUCATION AND ACCELERATED EVOLUTION
(environmental factors, lines of development, the problem of harmony)
* THE FUTURE COMMUNITY
(beyond the boomers)
* THE FUTURE POETRY
(Savitri; for the post-modern soul)
* MUSIC AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
(Karunamayee)
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�Consciousness itself by its mutation will necessitate and operate whatever mutation is needed for the body. It has to be noted that the human mind has already shown the capacity to aid nature in the evolution of new types of plant and animal; it has created new forms of its environment, developed by knowledge and disciplined considerable changes in its own mentality. It is not an impossibility that man should aid nature consciously also in his own spiritual and physical evolution and transformation. The urge to do it is already there and partly effective though still incompletely understood and accepted by the surface mentality; but one day it may understand go deeper within itself and discover the means, the secret energy, the intended operation of Consciousness-Force within which is the hidden reality we call Nature� (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine pg 844)